


The entire team is shocked and confused when Kutner commits suicide and the whole team is saddened by his loss. After threatening to leave if Cuddy won't agree to methadone treatment, he instead goes back to Vicodin because his changed behavior with methadone almost cost a patient his life. However, Wilson follows him and finds him puking it up out back by a dumpster, House finally admits he is taking Methadone because it has put an end to the pain in his leg. Wilson takes House out to dinner and buys him a drink, and after House drinks it, he walks off indignant that Wilson would suspect that he is taking heroin. Wilson and Foreman conclude that House is taking heroin. House comes to work in a good mood, setting everybody off. She later stops tormenting House when she decides that making his life miserable won't do any good. Cuddy returns to cover all her duties and starts to make House's life as miserable as possible for keeping her away from her child, including posting signs on the elevator that it is scheduled for maintenance (which it's not) and setting up a trip wire in the doorway or part of his office.

To handle the almost full-time job of supervising House, she turns to Cameron, who is incredibly adept at handling her old boss, but soon realizes she isn't up to the challenge on a constant basis and that anyone else would just say "no" to House all the time. Feeling overwhelmed by both her hospital responsibilities and the demands of a new child, she accepts Wilson's suggestion that she hand over some of her hospital duties to a deputy. We soon begin to realize that although they are both reluctant to begin a romantic relationship, both want the other to be more involved in their lives.Ĭuddy finds another girl to adopt, Rachel. Wilson realizes that the two are very attracted to each other and attempts to make them confront their feelings. When House tries to show his condolences and Cuddy snaps at him for changing his tune, they embrace and kiss. It soon blooms into a romance, but House feels it is affecting their medical judgement and tries to make them break up.Ĭuddy tries to adopt, but after House tries to convince her not to, the adoption falls through anyway. As a result, Foreman begins first to get concerned about her behavior, then starts to feel protective. However, she soon returns to her undisciplined ways. Her behavior quickly starts to deteriorate and she is fired and then re-hired. Thirteen has to confront the reality, forced upon her by Amber's death at an early age, that she too is facing a lifetime with a devastating illness. Wilson finds that Danny is now a stranger to him and that the initial incident that led to his disappearance has shaped his behavior in ways only House seems to fully comprehend. However, Wilson has to come to terms with another loss - his homeless brother Danny reappears in his life when he is found in New York City. After they return to Princeton, Wilson realizes he hadn't had this kind of fun since the day Amber died and decides to return to Princeton-Plainsboro. House also reveals that he suspected John House wasn't his biological father and House points out a family friend at the service who House believes really is his father. During the trip, the details of the beginnings of their friendship are revealed. House's father dies, and House tries to dodge the funeral, only to have Wilson return as a favor to Cuddy and Blythe House to ensure that House makes it. However, Wilson winds up leaving his post. House's original regret over his role in Amber's death seems to have worn off as instead of being supportive, he merely tries to convince Wilson that he is overreacting to the situation. Wilson slowly starts to recover from Amber's untimely death, but begins to reevaluate his life and to contemplate resigning from his post at the hospital.
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Although many critics denounced the move as unnecessary and totally unshadowed by the previous episodes, the event led to a series climax when, due to Kutner's death, House descends into psychosis and finally admits himself into a psychiatric hospital to deal with his twin demons of Vicodin and grief. As a result of his sudden departure, his character, Lawrence Kutner was killed off. However, the biggest change in Season 5 was the departure of Kal Penn from the series so he could take a position at the White House. However, the first episode didn't premiere until two weeks later, September 16.Īlthough House was originally scheduled to be shown on Tuesdays during Season 5, at mid-Season, the time slots for House and American Idol were switched on the prime time schedule, putting House's new episodes in the 8:00 P.M. Later, FOX Broadcasting Company stated in this Network Prime Time Schedule, that House would premiere its fifth Season at 8:00 P.M. The Hollywood Reporter was the first to go on record that House M.D.
